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Couldn't resist this. Was just looking through my latest Vermont Country Store catalogue for last minute things for Mr. ABC. Fantastic place to shop online for hard to find and useful items from the past.

Well, not all from the past. And it reminded me of something from my past.

Okay, ready for TOTD?

How many of you in here had electric trains as a child ... or gave one to your children? They were wonderful Christmas presents that provided pleasure for hours and months on end.

I had the old Lionels (with the liquid you poured into the smokestack to get "smoke"). I used them for years, then passed them along to my goddaughters when they were little. The engine alone must have weighed five pounds.

"Today, [the American voter] chooses his rulers as he buys bootleg whiskey, never knowing precisely what he is getting, only certain that it is not what it pretends to be." - H.L. Mencken

My brother had an awesome train set. He spent a lot of time putting it together-his city had working lights, he had an elevated streetcar- he used old toy building blocks to support the track. It wasn't a Lionel set, but it was h0 sized. He gradually collected all the items he used, from the little buildings to the various train-related stuff (RR gates, loaders, etc.). He used his old Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars in the miniature city.

Just ordered a fantastic gift from www.vermontcountrystore.com for the hubby who has everything and has a taste for both chocolate and fine liquors.

Should really get paid for this free endorsement!!! And hope that SR doesn't mind. Is wonderful to find quality items online, especially if you live in a tiny resort area as I do, beautiful ... but no damn shopping malls!

Sorry, sorry, SR ... promise not to do it again if against the rules, but this item could be helpful for folks like me that have family members that are just so impossible to buy for!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Every possible thing that this man of mine needs ... he has already purchased for himself!!!

Ps. Just remembered something from the Recipe section ... am going to make up a batch of those Peanut Butter cookies ... add some chocolate chips ... pack them up and put some in his stocking!

I had several, in different gauges, the downstairs of the house had track laid everywhere.
Slot car race tracks and hot wheel tracks too.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyesAnd clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB

My sons had the HO gauge. We had a large collection of the trains and all the accessories. Somehow they got lost or misplaced. I tried to get my ex to find them in the former house, but he never did give them to my son and grandkids. Sigh.

‎" To the world you are just one more person, but to a rescued pet, you are the world.""A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!"